"Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you."
"I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture."
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Source: Barry Hannah (2002). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.323, Grove Press
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